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Professor Narelle Lemon

VC Professoriate Research Fellow

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Campus: Mount Lawley  

Narelle is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow and Professor of Education in the School of Education.

Background

Narelle is an internationally recognised researcher in education and initial teacher education bringing an interdisciplinarity across education, arts, and positive psychology. She engages with narrative inquiry and creative research methods with a recent focus on poetry and visual narratives. Narelle's particular research expertise and interest relate to fostering wellbeing literacy in K-12 teachers, pre-service teachers, and higher degree research students and academics in the higher education sector – that is, capacity building in wellbeing and self-care practices that supports proactive decision making across diverse areas of evidence-based wellbeing science in order to flourish while learning how to adapt to work, life and societal stressors.

As an interdisciplinary researcher Narelle has also built a portfolio in scholarship of learning and teaching with a particular focus on professional digital literacy and confidence in higher education having researched this across future teachers’ use of Twitter and Instagram, and in academic use of Twitter in the capacity of being networked scholars. Her work in these areas has been acknowledged with an AUUT National Teaching Citation. As a passionate teacher educator, and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in professional experience (work integrated learning) in Australia and Malaysia.

Narelles tweet's and gram as @rellypops, blog as Wellbeing Whisperer via www.exploreandcreateco.com, and can be found on Apple and Spotify with various podcasts including Teachers Supporting Teachers and the Whisper Collective Podcast.

Professional Associations

  • International Positive Psychology Association
  • American Educational Research Association
  • Charter for Compassion Australia, Australian Scholars Group

National and International Awards

  • 2021 - Citizenship Award. School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne.
  • 2020 - National Teaching Citation 2019
  • 2018 - VC Award in The Team Category of Diversity and Inclusion
  • 2016 - MID Career Researcher Award, School of Education, La Trobe University
  • 2014 - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Re-Entry Initiative, Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University
  • 2013 - Research Excellence Award, Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University
  • 2013 - Early Career Researcher International Travel Award, Research Support and Performance Research and Innovation Portfolio, RMIT University
  • 2012 - Early Career Supervisor with Most Publications for 2012, School of Education, RMIT
  • 2008 - RMIT University Teaching Award Winner for Category A: Higher Education Discipline, RMIT
  • 2006 - Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Melbourne
  • 2004 - Elizabeth Robertson Award, The University of Melbourne

Research areas and interests

  • Wellbeing literacy in educational contexts
  • Self-care and proactive ways of being
  • Wellbeing education
  • Initial teacher education wellbeing and self-care
  • Community education wellbeing and self-care
  • Creativity, making and wellbeing
  • Creative research methods
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